Mitsubishi said a lease program on its Diamante sedans spurred sales to nearly 5,000 for the month.

From the beginning of the lease program, the city realized that tenants would need more help than just a low purchase price to take over their buildings.

Dealers like lease programs because they provide an opportunity to lease the client another car when the previous model is returned.

Through a lease program, the panels generate a portion of a home's energy needs.

From 1954, when the lease program began, to 1986, the Government received $84 billion for offshore leases.

Another analyst estimated the lease program as equal to a $2,200 rebate.

He estimated that a subsidized lease program could cost Chrysler up to $100 million in marketing expenses, or about 20 cents a share.

But lessors say they have learned from past mistakes and are now confidently putting much of their marketing muscle behind lease programs.

The growth coincided with decisions by banks and automakers' financing companies to put the brakes on lease programs.

The lease program would not include areas seeded by the county or identified as good wild-scallop habitat.